13 Facts About Alice Liddell

Alice Liddell shared her name with "Alice", the heroine of the story, but scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.

Alice Liddell was the fourth of the ten children of Henry Liddell, ecclesiastical dean of Christ Church, Oxford, one of the editors of A Greek-English Lexicon, and his wife Lorina Hanna Liddell.

Alice Liddell became a close friend of the Liddell family in subsequent years.

Alice Liddell was three years younger than Lorina and two years older than Edith, and the three sisters were constant childhood companions.

However, it is possible Alice Liddell was named in honour of Leopold's deceased elder sister instead, the Grand Duchess of Hesse.

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Alice Liddell married Reginald Hargreaves, a cricketer, on 15 September 1880, at the age of 28 in Westminster Abbey.

Alice Liddell denied that the name 'Caryl' was in any way associated with Charles Dodgson's pseudonym.

Alice Liddell became a noted society hostess and was the first president of Emery Down Women's Institute.

Alice Liddell took to referring to herself as "Lady Hargreaves", but there was no basis for such a title.

On 4 July 1862, in a rowing boat travelling on the Isis from Folly Bridge, Oxford, to Godstow for a picnic outing, 10-year-old Alice Liddell asked Charles Dodgson to entertain her and her sisters, Edith and Lorina, with a story.

Alice Liddell promised to do so but did not get around to the task for some months.

Alice Liddell eventually presented her with the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground in November 1864.

Dodgson himself claimed in later years that his Alice Liddell was entirely imaginary and not based upon any real child at all.